Jagoda Buić: Retrospective exhibition

Jagoda Buić was born in Split. She attended the Academy of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb and Art History at the University of Zagreb. She graduated with honours at the Academie für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. She studied set designing for movies at Cinecittà in Rome and History of Costume at Centre delle Arti e delle Costume at Palazzo Grassi in Venice. She has realized more than 120 projects as a costume and set designer for operas, ballets, dramas and movies in different countries. Her artistic approach to the theatre consists in the insistence on large spacial realizations with vanguard spirit, and the concern in myth and classical world. She wrote the ballet Apocalypse after St. John and the adaptation of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. In 1965 she creates her first textile form in space, immediately bought by Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam. Since than she has been showing her monumental installations in the international biennale exhibitions (São Paulo, Venice, Laussane) and in the most important museums of the world (Paris, Düsseldorf, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Bruxelles, Zürich, Tokio, Rome, Milan, Oslo, Barcelona, Montreal, Chicago, New York, Madrid, Vim, São Paulo, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Darmstadt, etc.). Her works may be found in many public and private art collections (Metropolitan Museum, New York, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, etc.). In the last couple of years she has exhibited in Rabat (a photographic perspective of Marocco), in Sarajevo in 2009 (an installation in Collegium Artisticum), in Zagreb - in HAZU Glyptotheque and the Museum of Arts and Crafts (Retrospective) in 2010. She was a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Denver and at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. She has won numerous international and local awards. She lives and works in Dubrovnik, Venice and Paris.


Awards

• 1954 Vienna, Academy of Applied Arts, Prix d’Honneur, Outstanding Thesis Award
• 1961 Pola, Golden Arena Award for costume design, 8th Edition of the Film Festival
• 1962 Zagreb, City of Zagreb Award
• 1971 Zagreb, Vladimir Nazor Award
• 1975 Sao Paulo, Grand Prix Itamaraty, XIII Bienal di Sao Paulo
• 1976 Vienna, Herder Prize
• 1994 UNESCO Award
• 2013 Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Hangzhou, China
• 2014 Picasso Golden Medal, UNESCO
• 2015 Vladimir Nazor Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2015 Elle Style Awards – Lifetime Achievement Award
• Exhibitions • 1967 São Paulo, IX Bienal de São Paulo
• 1968 Venezia, XXXIV Biennale Internazionale d’Arte
• 1970 Venezia, XXXV Biennale Internazionale d’Arte (with Janez Bernik and Dušan Džamonja)
• 1972 Paris, Galerie de l’Espace Pierre Cardin
• 1975 São Paulo, XIII Bienal de São Paulo
• 1975 Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Retrospective: Formes tissees
• 1977 Düsseldorf, Kunstverein: Gewebte Formen, Retrospective, 1968 – 1977
• 1978 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum: Retrospective, 1968 – 1978
• 1980 Lund, Konsthall (1971 – 1978)
• 1991 Angers, Museum of Contemporary Tapestry, Ronceray Abbey, The Fortress of Angers, Royal Chapel (4 exhibitions)
• 1993 Carcasonne, Museum of Modern Art
• 2001 Venice, Biennale, Arsenale
• 2001 Prague, Museum Kampa
• 2004 Dubrovnik, Sponza Palace
• 2008 Sarajevo, Collegium Artisticum
• 2010 Zagreb, Museum of Arts and Crafts
• 2011 Split, Museum of Fine Arts
• 2013 Trieste, Museo Revoltella
• 2013 Dubrovnik, Sponza Palace
• 2014 Milan, Spazio Via Dante • 2014 UNESCO, Pariz